Piano_At_Juilliard_And_Manhattan_School_Of_Music

Piano At Juilliard And Manhattan School Of Music The Piano at Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music The idea of fitting a keyboard to an instrument with strings, which started to vibrate when struck by hammers, was conceived probably in the fourteenth and certainly in the fifteenth century. For the next two hundred and fifty years, however, the harpsichord with plucked, rather than struck, strings, held undoubted sway. The clavichord also, had its adherents and within its severe limitations was responsive to gradations of finger touch, its strings struck by miniature tangents. In the late seventeenth century a new realization was afoot of the possibilities contained in broad melody, in a phrase growing louder and then softer, and in accentuation. This nascent demand for greater expressive possibilities produced the climate in which the piano, once it appeared, could develop in its own good time. Bartolommeo Cristofori, a Paduan harpsichord maker, is credited with constructing the first piano, the date usually put at between 1709 and 1711. He called his new instrument "gravicembalo col piano e forte", or "harpsichord with soft and loud". In shape and general construction it resembled a harpsichord, but it differed in its action mechanism. Deer leather hammers piano, school, music, strings, juilliard, students, struck, schools, offered, must, manhattan, harpsichord, graduate, classes, rather, provides, perform, new, knowledge, hammer, founded, complete, class, years, working, undergraduate, two, time, started, skills, sight-reading, put, possibilities, passion, off